Vehicle-brake



(No Model.)

I. SOHELP, Jr. & SOHELP.

VEHICLE BRAKE.

No. 404,228. Patented May 28, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFE cE.

FRED. SOHELP, JR, AND GEORGE H. SOHELP, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

VEHICLE-BRAKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 404,228, dated May 28, 1889.

Application filed May 4, 1888. $eria1No. 272,790. (No model.)

To all whom itmcty concern:

Be it known that we, FRED. SOHELP, Jr., and GEORGE H. SCHELP, of St. Louis, Missouri, have jointly made a new and useful Improvement in Adjustable Vehicle-Brakes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is an improved mode of con structing a vehicle-brake so that it is readily adaptable to vehicles of different gages, substantially as is hereinafter set forth and claimed, aided by a reference to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a View in perspective of our improved brake, and Fig. 2 aview in perspective showing detached from each other the parts composing the middle portion of the brake.

The views are upon different scales, and the same letters of reference denote the same parts.

Saving as it may be modified or supplemented by the embodiment therein of the improvement under consideration, the brake is of. a familiar form, and only that portion of the brakeis shown which is needed to understand the improvement.

A represents the brake, and B the brakelever. The brake is made in two similar parts, Oand C. These parts at the outer end thereof are respectively provided with the usual brake-blocks, and are otherwise finished in the customary manner. At the inner end the parts 0 O are flattened, substantially as shown at c, and in the portion c is a longitudinally-extended slot, 0, and a perforation, 0 the slot 6 and perforation c in one of the portions cbeing, when the brake is completed,

respectively opposite the perforation c and slot 0 in the other of the portions 0.

The parts C O are united and the brake completed by means of the bolts D and nuts (1, the bolt passing through the perforation c in one portion 0 and the slot 0 in the other portion 0, and the nuts being turned up on the bolts until the parts 0 c are bound togetherthat is, the parts 0 0' lap each other and the brake can be lengthened or shortened by slipping the parts 0 C upon each other until the brake is of the desired length, and then by the means described fastening the parts 0 0 together, substantially as shown in Fig. 1. The flattened portions 0 c are of use in strengthening the brake against a to rsional strain, such as exerted by the brakelever, which part is applied to the vehicle and is operated in the customary manner.

We claim 1. In combination with the brake-lever B, the herein-described adjustable brake-rod, the same consisting of the parts 0 0, each having a brake-block on the outer end and flattened at the inner end and slotted at c and perforated at 0 the said parts united by bolt and nut, all substantially as set forth.

2. The herein-described adjustable brakerod, consisting of two parts, each flattened and slotted at the inner end and united by bolt and nut, and having a brake-block at the outer ends and combined with a brake-lever, substantially as set forth.

FRED. SCHELP, JR.

GEO. H. SOHELP.

\Vitne'sses:

C. D. MOODY, J. W. A. SANFORD. 

